How do local economies and people respond to imperial expansion? How do empires affect small‐scale economies at the local and regional level? For a long time, inter‐regional exchange and social articulation in the Andes ...

This dissertation examines a movement of Nicaraguan women migrants in Costa Rica as a struggles over the social construction of gender, race, space and scale in the neoliberal era. My dissertation is an ethnography of the ...

This dissertation describes the results of fieldwork to investigate 3rd millennium B.C. temples on the coast of Peru. Field methodologies were designed to examine the changing nature of ritual practices performed by early ...

Taking the disintegration of the Tiwanaku state (ca. AD 1000) as an example, this thesis investigates how local communities respond to state collapse. Archaeological research on collapse has largely focused on its economic ...

Immigrants and their supporters filled Chicago’s streets on March 10 and May 1, 2006, to protest legislation aimed at banning “aid and comfort” for undocumented immigrants. The largest street mobilizations in the city’s ...

Recent fieldwork by the Industries of Angkor Project (INDAP) has identified the first extensive evidence of iron production within an Angkorian Khmer (9th to 15th centuries CE) centre at Preah Khan of Kompong Svay (Preah ...

This dissertation examines the gentrification of space in the Almaguin Highlands in rural Ontario, Canada. Although the Almaguin Highlands has long been home to small vacation cabins and cottages, it has recently begun to ...

Restriction-oriented immigration policies and polarizing political debates have intensified the
vulnerability of undocumented people in the United States, promoting their “willingness” to do
low-wage, low-status work. ...

This article examines the application of image enhancement techniques on high resolution and multi-spectral WorldView 2 satellite images in aid of remote sensing a past gold trading trail in Northwestern Luzon that was ...